Huge masses attend the commemoration of the 65th anniv. of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Supporters of the pro-government Civic Union Forum (COF) and associated COKA foundation gathered to hold their Peace March to mark the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 revolution.
The march started from in front of the Budapest University of Technology on the Buda side of the capital on Saturday.
COF-COKA leader László Csizmadia told participants at the start of the event that “we are ready to protect Europe’s Christian-Jewish civilisation”.
Participants lined up behind a giant banner with an image of former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, a photo of the mounted police attack on demonstrators in 2006, and an inscription “never again”.
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Budapest University of Technology
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Budapest University of Technology
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Budapest University of Technology
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Budapest University of Technology
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Budapest University of Technology
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Budapest University of Technology
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Budapest University of Technology
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Budapest University of Technology
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Budapest University of Technology
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
The crowd was scheduled to walk over to the Pest side and of the city and join central commemorations addressed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán later in the afternoon.
“Never again Bolshevism, never again Communism, never again Nazism,” Csizmadia said, addressing the crowd, adding that “we don’t want either extreme liberalism or the decadent ideology of an open society”.
He called on participants to remember the heroes of 1956, the “victims of Kádár’s retaliation” and also to remember “how the Gyurcsány regime desecrated the anniversary of the revolution in 2006, when the streets of Pest were stained with blood”.
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Czeglédi Zsolt
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Czeglédi Zsolt
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Czeglédi Zsolt
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Czeglédi Zsolt
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Czeglédi Zsolt
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Liberty Bridge
Photo: MTI/Czeglédi Zsolt
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at the Budapest University of Technology
Photo: MTI/Czeglédi Zsolt
On the subject of relations with the European Union, the COF-COKA leader said Poles and Hungarians could do without “friendly fire”, adding that the peoples represented a Europe of nations and had no need for an empire.
Members of COF-COKA’s Italian and Polish partner organisations also appeared in the procession. Many of the participants carried national and Szekler flags, while some wore traditional Transylvanian folk costumes.
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at Erzsébet Square
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Freedom March for the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution at Erzsébet Square
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Details of the events of 2006 were projected onto a video wall along the route of the Peace March and a water cannon truck was also exhibited to recall the way the crowd was dispersed by police at the time.
When the front of the procession had reached the venue of the central commemoration on the other side of the river, the tail end of the march was still at the assembly point, next to the University of Technology.
DNH should have an “edit”:
Too old to attend but watched on hírTV. Very impressive. Orbán’s speech was very good.
I predicted an easy win for President Trump after seeing the huge crowds attending his rallies while Biden was hiding in his basement. No way did President Trump lose this election. It was stolen from him in the large cities controlled by communist democrats.
It cannot happen in Hungary because we have strict voter identification and voter registration laws. Thank God for that.
István, get your head a shake. Trump lost the election because he badly handled the COVID panedmic.
Orban for his many faults did an amazing job of handling the pandemic by making sure that Hungary had enough vaccines at the beginning. Hungary got enough vaccines because it got Western plus Russian and Chinese vaccines.
Unlike Trump, Orban has brains (regardless of how one views Orban). That’s not to say the media lied about Trump, such as the Trumo-Russian collusion hoax. However, Trump lost the election due to his own doings.
Also, there is no way Trump would win the next election considering he was the one who signed the deal with the Taliban (Biden is equally if not greater at fault for going through with it).
Even though I agree with US withdrawing, as the war in Afghanistan was never winnable except for early on in the war.
However, opponents of Trump would be quick to point that out, especially considering the increase in Afghan refugees is due to the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.
So yeah, you shouldn’t be cheering for Trump István.
Thank goodness all these people attending have had the COVID vaccine plus booster and there’s no imminent fourth wave.
You are not a realist but a far-left apologist for the greatest election fraud in American history. Anyone who was willing to look could see how the communist democrats stole the election from President Trump in large, black American cities.
One of the guys responsible for the Middle-East fiasco just croaked. President Trump wrote a fitting send-off for him:
No matter how popular Orbán is, the election could still be stolen from him if not for the safeguards in Hungarian election laws. Voter registration and voter identification are necessary to guarantee fair elections. Hungary has it. America does not have it. Why is that?
Governments that truly truly care about the welfare of the people and represent its wishes deserve to be reelected. Congratulations to the FIDESZ Government, headed by Prime Minister Orban, for putting the needs of Hungarians has a true populist government.
As a visitor ( with Hun roots) to Budapest, it was obvious just how incredible ( for a “free” EU member) the grip on power of the Orban regime is.We suffered greatly in trying to negotiate the chaotic public transit,no online info,no signs in the metro and bus stops, it reminded me of Bombay transit and its not a compliment.This is particularly annoying considering the usually reliable mass transit in BUD.This Oct 23, and the ones afterwards, also on Xmas Eve- better stay at home.
Andy, I don’t get what you mean by “it was obvious just how incredible (…) the grip on power of the Orban regime is.” What are you trying to say?
The rest of your comment is also confusing. I live in a nice little town not far from Budapest. I use public transport whenever I visit Budapest. I find it hard to believe that you cannot find transit information online. Try searching the Internet using “map and directions Budapest”. It works for me.
DNH should have an “edit”:
Too old to attend but watched on hírTV. Very impressive. Orbán’s speech was very good.
I predicted an easy win for President Trump after seeing the huge crowds attending his rallies while Biden was hiding in his basement. No way did President Trump lose this election. It was stolen from him in the large cities controlled by communist democrats.
It cannot happen in Hungary because we have strict voter identification and voter registration laws. Thank God for that.
István, get your head a shake. Trump lost the election because he badly handled the COVID panedmic.
Orban for his many faults did an amazing job of handling the pandemic by making sure that Hungary had enough vaccines at the beginning. Hungary got enough vaccines because it got Western plus Russian and Chinese vaccines.
Unlike Trump, Orban has brains (regardless of how one views Orban). That’s not to say the media lied about Trump, such as the Trumo-Russian collusion hoax. However, Trump lost the election due to his own doings.
Also, there is no way Trump would win the next election considering he was the one who signed the deal with the Taliban (Biden is equally if not greater at fault for going through with it).
Even though I agree with US withdrawing, as the war in Afghanistan was never winnable except for early on in the war.
However, opponents of Trump would be quick to point that out, especially considering the increase in Afghan refugees is due to the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.
So yeah, you shouldn’t be cheering for Trump István.
Thank goodness all these people attending have had the COVID vaccine plus booster and there’s no imminent fourth wave.
You are not a realist but a far-left apologist for the greatest election fraud in American history. Anyone who was willing to look could see how the communist democrats stole the election from President Trump in large, black American cities.
One of the guys responsible for the Middle-East fiasco just croaked. President Trump wrote a fitting send-off for him:
No matter how popular Orbán is, the election could still be stolen from him if not for the safeguards in Hungarian election laws. Voter registration and voter identification are necessary to guarantee fair elections. Hungary has it. America does not have it. Why is that?
Governments that truly truly care about the welfare of the people and represent its wishes deserve to be reelected. Congratulations to the FIDESZ Government, headed by Prime Minister Orban, for putting the needs of Hungarians has a true populist government.
As a visitor ( with Hun roots) to Budapest, it was obvious just how incredible ( for a “free” EU member) the grip on power of the Orban regime is.We suffered greatly in trying to negotiate the chaotic public transit,no online info,no signs in the metro and bus stops, it reminded me of Bombay transit and its not a compliment.This is particularly annoying considering the usually reliable mass transit in BUD.This Oct 23, and the ones afterwards, also on Xmas Eve- better stay at home.
Andy, I don’t get what you mean by “it was obvious just how incredible (…) the grip on power of the Orban regime is.” What are you trying to say?
The rest of your comment is also confusing. I live in a nice little town not far from Budapest. I use public transport whenever I visit Budapest. I find it hard to believe that you cannot find transit information online. Try searching the Internet using “map and directions Budapest”. It works for me.